Printed images in early modern Britain
Subtitle: essays in interpretation
By: [edited by] Michael Hunter
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780754666547
Description: Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, this collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries.
Notes: Papers presented at conferences held July 13-14, 2007, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Sept. 12-13, 2008, Victoria and Albert Museum.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Printed images and the Reformation; title: Printed images in science and cartography; title: Printed images and politics; title: Printed images and aspects of late seventeenth-century English culture.